Saints Alive At Stanford
It wasn't Gardner-Webb over Kentucky - nothing during the regular season will be - but give the MAAC's Siena Saints some big love for its convincing home win over Stanford on Saturday.
Siena, which had lost to Syracuse earlier in the week, moved to 2-2 and dropped Stanford to 4-1, and likely out of the Top 25.
"I felt like we won a championship," Siena captain Kenny Hasbrouck said in the Albany Times Union.
Not quite, but the Saints win is a reminder of how feisty the MAAC can be. It's always been a league that offers up a couple of good upsets every season and we're guessing this isn't the only one of this campaign, but it will be the best and Saints head coach Fran McCaffery further establishes his rep as one of the northeast's best basketball minds.
. . . Another impressive win over the weekend came from the New Orleans Privateers out of the Sun Belt, who downed No. 21 North Carolina State (ACC) on the road with a banked-in 3-pointer by TJ Worley with 1.7 seconds left.
Just four months into his first season as New Orlean's coach (following the resignation of Buzz Williams, who took an assistant's job at Marquette), 30-year-old Joe Pasternack already has a signature win for his program. UNO plays Tulane next Saturday.
